Yeah, aggressive control over ideas and concepts will typically backfire spectacularly over time; as people get more and more tired of the restrictive treatment, you'll see an upswing in troll art and activity specifically designed to fuck around with the rules and misconstrue them in as many ways as possible anyway.
The thing with closed species is that most of the time the "copyright" is more or less enforced by a gentlemen's agreement among furries. Furries always will respect the rights of each other more than the companies they lift designs and species from, and this can be seen by the meltdowns when companies DMCA rule 34 artists who got a little too popular. As @Pukebucket said there are going to be trolls with furry fandom knowledge (or burnt out self-hating furries looking to cause chaos) who will abuse the fuck out of this to piss off furries. After the political shitstorms of 2016-18, the rise in trolls commissioning troll art of someone elses fursona to fuck with them, and newfags constantly roleplaying as someone elses fursona/using them as their icons, plenty of furry artists have in their ToS that you can't get art of someone else's character unless they approve of it. Imagine crazy rules extending to closed species as well because of trolls fucking with the creators of said species.
I agree with your post, I just wanted to point this out in particular since it's not at all a new problem. I was around during the sparkledog boom, and even before then during the animu renaissance and early days of "original species" creation; people have always been shitting their drawers about people stealing their "style", even when their style was just "slightly thicker lineart" or "heart-shaped paw pads". In some cases (such as obvious tracery) this was a fair accusation to make, but a lot of the time it was just kids who couldn't draw a dog accidentally falling into the same design traps in a coincidental fashion and then fighting over which one did it first.
Back on the stealing someone’s style thing, when I started posting to FA for the first time an artist whose style I managed to emulate (because I loved how they drew at the time and eventually I branched out and found my own style that was a lot different from everyone else’s) actually accused me of tracing about a day after I started posting my art. Idk whether I should be proud or offended because on one hand I got damn close and on the other I think getting super accusatory about someone else having your style is autistic. Idk if she was just used to tracers or something, but it shows how defensive people will get when they see a style very close to their own. They immediately assume people are tracing them. Not gonna blame them for that considering how many talentless hacks there are in this fandom, but goddamn, dude.
This looks just like gastrosnaps right down to the fucking bones showing through the skin. Both look like some kind of weird fetish though.
What the hell is that supposed to be? It's feral form looks like a turkey lizard in latex.
"Mysterious creature from the stars."
These things look like they came out of those ASMR craft videos of slime bursting out of a balloon or squishy stress balls in a net.
I thought the whole point of a closed species was
As far as I understood about original species, there were supposed to be some traits that make up the novelty of that species in the market. Then again, these things aren't made by mega toy companies that actually know how to protect their brands and compete neck and neck with other big names. It's also worth mentioning that some if not most creators of closed species aren't very transparent with the extent of the traits they allow in especially make-your-own/MYO designs while owners don't know any better other than throwing bitch fits on off-brand looking creatures that are not in any way associated with the popular lines of original species.
The fetishes are vore and slime. Not hard to figure out.
I always kinda suspected that that was where a lot of these people wanted it to go; back in early DA days making toys of popular merch (such as Black Blood Alliance wolves, or Floraverse figurines) were considered a keystone to being a 'successful' content creator. If your shit was cool enough that toy companies were willing to work with you to make toys, you had to be doing something right, right?
Before I knew about the Farms, I thought eugenics was a morally reprehensible practice. But having spent some time in this exceptional rabbit hole, I've been forced to rethink a few of my opinions.
Oh my fucking god these AGAIN! Where did these even come from, why am I suddenly seeing them everywhere including my nightmares?
Thanks for this, my will to live has never been weaker then right now.There's something about Modeseven's art that just screams 'wrong', in a primal fear, uncanny valley way. The only other artists I have that reaction to are Overflo207 and Smudge Proof.
(The fact that he has an expression labeled 'poopy' makes me feel like taking a bath in white phosphorous.)
